Rialtas.net – Government 2.0

By Doug Beizer
This is an article from March last year (published while I was out of commission for a few months) but outlines an interesting precedent for governments internationally.
By Doug Beizer on FCW.com
The General Services Administration has signed agreements with Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and blip.tv that make it possible for federal agencies to use new-media tools while [...]

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Accenture, has just published a report, From e-Government to e-Governance, recommending ways in which Goverment might enahnce its services to the public.
A key recommendation in the report is for public sector organisations not to build everything from scratch themselves, but to capitalise on the popularity of outside websites, including ones set up for social networking [...]

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The 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China on Oct. 1 took on symbolic importance not only for the Communist Party, but also for connoisseurs of China’s Internet controls. The thinking by some was that with the last of a series of sensitive anniversaries this year now finally behind us, the guardians of China’s [...]

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gordon brown on global society, and how technology enables a global community to fundamentally change the world..discusses how in future foreign policy
should not be dictated by political elites, but instead should be run by listening to the public opinions of people who are blogging and using other
online technologies to communicate across the world..
he discusses combining [...]

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Launched on May 21st, Data.gov is an online platform for access to Federal Government Data. By helping the public find, access, and download non-sensitive Executive Branch data, Data.gov enables enterprising Americans to create new web applications that can help individuals, communities, and businesses access, sort, visualize and understand public data in new ways.

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 From Mathew Lee (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Her videos aren’t quite viral yet and she’s not tweeting, but Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is embracing new media, using the Web to promote the agency and her role as the nation’s top envoy.
In less than three months, Clinton’s State Department has embarked on a digital [...]

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From an AFP article published yesterday
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama outdueled Hillary Clinton on the Web during their battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.
But Secretary of State Clinton is giving President Obama a run for the money in the latest Web 2.0 sweepstakes.
The former first lady has taken to digital diplomacy with a vengeance, contributing [...]

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www.whitehouse.gov on 20th January 2009

Www.whitehouse.gov on 21st January 2009

and this is good news.. as you can see the new site includes a new Whitehouse Blog..

From Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House (writing on the Whitehouse Blog):
A short time ago, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the [...]

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From an Article By Evan Ratliff on Wired.com
In November, not two weeks after winning the election and still two months from becoming commander in chief, Barack Obama brought the government into the 21st century. Or at least that was what we were told when he released his first Web video address as president-elect. The clip, [...]

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From a post by Todd Lucier ,Ontario , Canada.
Al Gore addressed the San Francisco audience at the Web 2.0 Summit with an urgent appeal to assign a purpose to Web 2.0 tools. His address focussed on three themes:
* the democracy crisis: television has removed the democratic view of truth, and interactive Web TV – (Current [...]

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